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Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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What I'd like is an easy way to keep my notes synced on my laptop and my android phone. I suppose I could install git on my phone and do it that way, but maybe there's a less faffy way I'm missing?

I use simplenote for this. It is basic text-based note keeping and free (by the Wordpress folks).

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian Sync does exactly this. Works very well in my experience.

It's paid which is a bit off-putting, but maybe I shouldn't be so cheap. Edit: It looks like it's backed by git so maybe it could be used for free, with a bit of faffing. Unfortunately I'm cheap and lazy.

As long as you can sync a folder on your phone (whether with Git or any cloud service), mobile app can open it.

Of course, you may experience some conflicts, but that's why you can pay them not to worry about that. Totally worth the price for me, though I do have a permanent discount ($5/month, as does everyone that signed up before Sep 30th).

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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post #12

What I'd like is an easy way to keep my notes synced on my laptop and my android phone. I suppose I could install git on my phone and do it that way, but maybe there's a less faffy way I'm missing?

I've been using it with termux+git on phone. My shell history has the full path to the obsidian folder and the previous git commands. So I just do up arrows and enter. Not that ugly.

I'll admit it's not as UXy as pressing a sync button

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

#24
post #9

Obsidian is great. I'm a paying supporter (catalyst and sync). Weirdly I started playing with Emacs + org-mode recently (never been an Emacs user before!) and I'm seriously considering making it my exclusive "second brain". Something about org-mode, org-babel, org-jupyter, org-agenda and org-roam that just clicks with me.

What's org-jupyter? Search engines didn't help me there. I'm interested in any jupyter related tools.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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post #11

Please tell me this is compatible with Johnny decimals https://johnnydecimal.com/

User of Obsidian here. I don't see why that would be problematic. You can name each folder/note what ever you want. I guess you could also write a plugin for Obsidian that would do this for you. I don't really see the need for numbering though. Obsidian has a very robust system for tagging and linking together notes. Coupled with proper search, I can always find what I need. I do store my notes in a hierarchical cont…

The only thing missing for me in Obsidian is filtering of list of tags it tag pane - when I select one, list should get filtered to show only tags coexisting in notes with selected tag/tags. I write about it too often. Otherwise, it's perfect in searching/accessing notes. I use Obsidian every day and love it.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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post #11

Please tell me this is compatible with Johnny decimals https://johnnydecimal.com/

I use Johnny Decimal style files & folders with Obsidian and it's great. I wrote about how (and why) I implemented my Johnny Decimal system into Obsidian here, if it helps: https://eleanorkonik.com/yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-ver...

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

#27
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian Sync does exactly this. Works very well in my experience.

It's paid which is a bit off-putting, but maybe I shouldn't be so cheap. Edit: It looks like it's backed by git so maybe it could be used for free, with a bit of faffing. Unfortunately I'm cheap and lazy.

Try Syncthing (Synctrayzor is a nice wrapper on Win, Syncthing-Fork on Android is better than original Syncthing), if you don't want to pay for their Obsidian Sync.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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post #11

Please tell me this is compatible with Johnny decimals https://johnnydecimal.com/

Why have I never heard of this before? And I'd really like to see some example top-level hierarchies.

And I'd ask, still, is is unnecessarily hierarchical? If you only have 10 categories below "20 Finance", why not just stick the (maximum) 10 categories under 20-29 in the top level? You'd still have the conceptual grouping under 2x, but without the indirection.

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